I love my K2. But it’s all about the tinkering. It’s had some significant improvements over the years but it’s not a K3. I use mine a good bit for nets and stuff but it’s a ragchew rig for me. But I love to align this and calibrate that so it’s a ton of fun. Just added 60 meters and that was a blast.
If you want to build a kit don’t go anywhere else! > On Jul 23, 2026, at 5:15 PM, Jim Brown via Elecraft > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/23/2026 1:54 PM, Steve Hall via Elecraft wrote: >> Unfortunately, at the price you get the K2 with 100 Watts and SSB, you may >> as well get a K3s. > > And the K3 and K3S are FAR, FAR better radios. The K2, a very nice QRP CW > rig, was also fine with the added 100W amp and tuner. It was only adequate on > SSB, which was an afterthought, both as a transmitter and receiver. On SSB, > the RX was fine when at full bandwidth through the TX filter, but the massive > phase distortion generated by re-aligning the RX filters for narrower RX > bandwidth seriously degraded speech intelligibility. > > Wayne had learned a LOT in the decade or so between when the K2 and K3 were > designed, and by then, there were far more powerful tools at prices > compatible with hams pocketbooks, and for designs that weren't feasible for > kit builders. > > The great things about the K2 are that it allowed thousands of hams to build > a quality rig, and it built a great company that was able to give us state of > the art rigs that have been the choice of serious HF operators for 18 years! > It also established a wonderful new way to interact with customers, with > interactive on-line communication of user needs and desires, on-line support, > direct sales that eliminate the middleman, and factory repair service. > > 73, Jim K9YC > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
